pitiful performance of an SATA150 drive

[Jamie Bowden]

On 4/16/06, Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
>         [Moved to -stable]
>
> On Sunday 16 April 2006 07:04, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> = I just tried this on a system as close to the one you have as possible
>
> You are welcome to visit my machine and take a look. Use the same ssh key as
> for the FreeBSD cluster and connect to aldan.algebra.com.
>
> = That makes me *seriously* doubt that ATA is at fault here...
>
> What else can it be? The main disks are SCSI and work well. The video sucks,
> but that's a problem common to many -- nobody can get their PCI-Radeons up
> with DRI.
>
> What else can be wrong?

SATA HDD performance on my machine is less than stellar as well.  The
IRQ the SATA controller sits on is also given to the TI FireWire
controller on my SB Audigy, and I haven't gotten around to putting
that in a different slot and seeing if that changes anything.

It would have been nice for PCs to have gone to a full 5 bits for IRQ
instead of  just hacking things up by adding 2^3 to the existing 2^4
as was done.  Shared bus architectures, I spit on them all.

Jamie Bowden
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